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The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872. Minutes and Documents. Reports and Letters.

by: Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U.; Dixon, Richard, tr.; Miller, Alex, tr.

Publication date: 1978

Collection: folkscanomy_miscellaneous; folkscanomy; additional_collections

Language: English

The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872. Minutes and Documents

Transl. by Richard Dixon and Alex Miller. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. — 752 p.

Contents

Preface
General Council’s Resolution on the Convocation and Order of the Day of the Hague Congress

The Hague Congress of the International Working Men’s Association, September 2-7, 1872

The Congress Sittings. Minutes

Benjamin Le Moussu. Minutes
Friedrich Sorge. Minutes

Statements and proposals

Appendices

Minutes Recorded by N. Zhukovsky
Walter to Le Moussu
P. Lefebvre-Roncier to Karl Marx

Documents of the Congress

Report of the General Council to the Fifth Annual Congress of the International Working Men’s Association, Held at the Hague, from the 2nd to the 7th September, 1872
International Working Men’s Association. Summary of the General Council's Financial Administration in 1871/72
Report of the North American Federal Council to the Hague Congress
Modifications to the General Rules Proposed by the Ferre Section
Narbonne Section. Message to the Hague Congress
Declaration of the Paris Sections to the Delegates of the International Association Assembled in Congress
The Ferre Section to the Delegates of the Hague Congress
Paris Section of Workers’ Rights to the Members of the Hague Congress
Report of the Rouen Federation
Report of the Portuguese Federal Council
Message From the Porto Maurizio (Italy) Section
Report of the Basle Section
The Congress of the Geneva Federation to the Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at the Hague
Message of Greetings from Francois Ostyn
The New Madrid Federation to the International Congress Assembled at the Hague
Invitation to the Congress Delegates to Visit the Grave of A. Barbfis in the Hague
Address of the Federal Council of Holland
Greeting from the Amsterdam Members of the International
Statements by Rudolf Schramm
Greetings Telegram from Cassel, Member of the International
Note of the Contents of Separate Messages Received by the Congress
Resolutions of the General Congress Held at the Hague from the 2nd to the 7th September, 1872

Mandate Commission

Report of the Mandate Commission to the Hague Congress
Mandates of C. Alerini
Mandates of J. Ph. Becker
Mandate of A. Hepner
Mandate of V. Dave
Mandate of N. Zhukovsky
Telegram of the Revolutionary Socialist Propaganda Section
Mandates of Th. Cuno
Mandate of Harriet Law
Mandate of J. P. Macdonnell
Mandate of K. Marx
Mandate of N. Marselau
Mandate of T. Morago
Mandate of H. Oberwinder
Mandate of Potel
Mandate of Th. Roach
Mandate of A. Sauva
Mandate of W. West
Mandate of R. Farga Pellicer
Mandate of P. Fluse
Mandates of F. Engels
Imperative Mandate of the Portuguese Federation to Its Delegate at the Hague Congress
Imperative Mandate given to the Jura Delegates for the Hague Congress
Imperative Mandate given by the Spanish Federation to Its Delegates to the International Congress
Nominal List of Delegates

Commission to Investigate the Alliance
Commission to Investigate the Alliance
Report on the Alliance of Socialist Democracy Presented in the Name of The' General Council to the Congress at the Hague
Statement by Josfi Mesa on the Alliance in Spain 361 Bureau of Foreign Agents of the People's Judgment Society to Lyubavin

Report of N. Utin to the Hague Congress of the International Working Men’s Association

I-VIII
The People's Judgment
Implementation of the Alliance in Russia
The Committee’s Orders, Its Police, Its Terror, Its Vengeance
Assassination
The Flight. Bakunin’s Example
Bakunin’s Responsibility
The Role of Women According to Bakunin and Nechayev
The People's Judgment No. 2
Bakunin’s Signature. Apologia of All That Has Been Said, Signed by Bakunin
Conclusion

Appendices

Excerpts from Lawyer Spasovich’s Speech
Bakunin’s Escape
Romanov, Pugachev or Pestel? The People's Cause, 1862

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Alliance Society
Cuno’s Mandate to Vichard
A. Serraillier. Extracts from Letters Concerning Bousquet, Marchand, Etc.
To the Members of the International Working Men’s Association
Report of the Commission Nominated by the Delegates of the Hague Congress on the Proposal of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association in Order to Disclose the Activities of the Secret Society Known as the Alliance
Statement by P. Vichard

The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men’s Association

Introduction
The Secret Alliance
The Alliance in Switzerland
The Alliance in Spain
The Alliance in Italy
The Alliance in France
The Alliance after the Hague Congress
The Alliance in Russia
Conclusion

Appendices

Bakunin’s Hegira
Bakunin’s Pan-Slav Manifesto
Bakunin and the Tsar

Documents

The Secret Statutes of the Alliance
Programme and Regulations of the Public Alliance
Letter from Bakunin to Francisco Mora in Madrid[/i]

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Extracts from the Minutes of the General Council
Karl Marx. Extracts from the Minutes of the General Council Council to the Hague Congress
Frederick Engels. Translation of an Excerpt from to - Karzewicz’s Letter
Frederick Engels. Summary of Financial Administration and General Balance of Financial Accounts of the General Council for 1871/72
Frederick Engels. Motion for the Procedure of Debate on the General Rules and Administrative Regulations
Frederick Engels. Notes on Hepner’s Speech at the Evening Sitting, September 6
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Appendices to N. Utin’s Report
Karl Marx. Miscellaneous, Concerning the Congress
Karl Marx. Contributions and Statistics of the Sections 670 Karl Marx. Alliance
Karl Marx. Other Congress Material
Karl Marx. On the Credentials Commission
Karl Marx. Committee of Inquiry
Frederick Engels. Material for the Pamphlet the Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association
Frederick Engels. Notes on Dentraygues and Guesde
Frederick Engels. List of Documents for the Pamphlet the Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men's Association

Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Geographical Names and Addresses

Documents of the First International. The Hague Congress of the First International, September 2-7, 1872. Reports and Letters

Transl. by Richard Dixon. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. — 690 p.

Contents

Preface

Articles, Accounts of Correspondents and Reports of Congress Delegates on the Hague Congress

A Correspondents' Record of a Speech Made by Karl Marx

Report of the Fifth Annual General Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at the Hague Submitted by Maltman Barry, Former Member of the General Council and the British Federal Council
Reports Sent to The Times by the English Delegate J. G. Eccarius

Accounts of the German Delegates in the newspaper Der Volksstaat

[Adolf Hepner.] On the Hague Congress of the International. Article I
[Frederick Engels.] On the Hague Congress of the International. Article II
[Fritz Milke.] On the Hague Congress
[Adolf Hepner.] On the Hague Congress of the International. Article III
[Adolf Hepner.] The Hague Congress of the International. Article IV (Concluding Article. Against the Bakuninists)

Articles in the Neue Freie Presse Newspaper

[Karl Marx.] The Congress of the International
[Heinrich Oberwinder.] The Congress of the International 145 [Karl Marx.] The Congress of the International

Account of the Hague Congress in the Vienna Newspaper Volkswille

Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at The Hague

[Heinrich Scheu.] On the Congress of the International Working Men’s Association
Report of the French Delegate Raimond Wilmart on the Hague Congress
[Edouard Vaillant.] International and Revolution. Written on the Occasion of the Hague Congress by Communard Emigres, Formerly Members of the International's General Council
Account of the Swiss Delegate Joh. Ph. Becker of the Fifth Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at the Hague
Report of the Jura Federation Delegate James Guillaume. The Congress of the Hague
Account of the Work and Resolutions of the Hague Congress by the Belgian Delegate Pierre Fluse
[Frederick Engels.] Imperative Mandates at the Hague Congress
Reports of the Spanish and Portuguese Delegate Paul Lafargue to the Newspaper La Emancipacion. News from The Hague
[Frederick Engels]. The Congress at the Hague. {Leiter to Enrico Bignami)
[Frederick Engels.] From the Article: London Letters
Report by F. A. Sorge to the North American Federation of the International Working Men’s Association

From the Correspondence of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Figures in the International and Others

1872

From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, January 2
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Carlo Terzaghi, January 14 [-15]
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, January 18
From a Lotter of Frederick Engels to Paul Lafarguc, January
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Theodor Cuno, January 24
From a Letter of Wilhelm Liebknecht to Johann Philipp Becker, February 1
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Ferdinand Jozewicz, February 24
Frederick Engels to Cesare Bert, March 21
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, April 23
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, May 7
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Johann Philipp Becker, May 9
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to the Ferrara Workers’ Association, May 10
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, May 15 [-22]
Johann Philipp Becker to Frederick Engels, May 20
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, May 27 [-28]
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Cesar de Paepe, May 28
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Nikolai Danielson, May 28
From a Letter of Nikolai Danielson to Karl Marx, May 23 (June 4)
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, June 5 [-6]
From a Letter of Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels. [about June 5]
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Theodor Cuno, June 10
Hermann Jung to Karl Marx [June 12]
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Johann Philipp Becker, June 14
Frederick Engels to the Emancipazione del Proletarlo Society [June 14]
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels [June 15]
Anselmo Lorenzo to the General Council, June 19
The Spanish Federal Council to the Belgian Federal Council [June 75]
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels, June 20
O. V. Suetendael to Karl Marx, June 20
Edouard Vaillant to Charles Longuet [June 21]
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, June 21
Vladimir Baranov to Karl Marx, June 10 (22)
From a Letter of Jenny Marx (daughter) to Ludwig Kugelmann, June 27
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels, June 29
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, June 29
Theodor Cuno to Frederick Engels, June 29
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Adolf Hepner, July 2
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Theodor Cuno, July 5
From a Letter of E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels, July 7
The Romance Federal Committee to the General Council, July 7
Henri Perret to Hermann Jung, July 7
Hermann Greulich to Johann Philipp Becker, July 8
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, July 9
A. Sabor to Karl Marx, July 9
Paul Stumpf to Frederick Engels, July 10
W. F. Cowell Stepney to Hermann Jung, July 12
L. Dagobert to Hermann Jung, July 12
Paul Lafargue to Frederick Engels, July 12
From a Letter of Wilhelm Eichhoff to Karl Marx, July 14
The Committee of the Jura Federation to the General Council, July 15
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, July 15
Friedrich Bolte to Karl Marx, July 16
Friedrich Bolte to the General Council, July 16
Ludwig Kugelmann to Karl Marx, July 16
Frederick Engels to Ugo Bartorelli [July 751
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels [July 19)
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels, July 20
0. V. Suetendael to Karl Marx, July 20
Paul Lafargue to Frederick Engels [about July 21}
Hendrick Gerhard to Frederic Coumet, July 21
Rugone Dupont to Frederick Engels, July 21
Karl Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, July 23
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, July 23
Raymond Wilmart to Karl Marx, July 24
Carl Farkas to Johann Philipp Becker, July 25
Theodor Cuno to Frederick Engels [July 26]
Hermann Jung to Karl Marx, [July 26]
Karl Marx to Hermann Jung [end of July]
Jose C. Nobre-Franca to Frederick Engels, July 27
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels [July 28]
The General Council’s Reply to the Protest of the Jura Federation at the Convening of a Congress at The Hague, July 28
Karl Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, July 29
William West to John Hales, July 29
Francisco Tomas to the General Council, August 1
From a Letter of Gustav Ludwig to Karl Marx, August 2
August Geib to Karl Marx, August 2
From a Letter of Wilhelm Bracke Jr. to Ludwig Kugelmann, August 3
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Adolf Hepner, August 4
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Theodor Cuno, August 4
Frederick Engels to Johann Philipp Becker, August 5
From a Letter of Carl Speyer to Karl Marx, August 5
From a Letter of Nikolai Danielson to Karl Marx, July 20-25 (August 1-6)
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, August 6
From a Letter of Ludwig Kugelmann to Karl Marx, August 6
Wilhelm Fink to Frederick Engels, August 7
Paul Lafargue to Frederick Engels, August 8
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels, August 9
Hugo Heller to Karl Marx, August 9
Address of the Zurich Section of the International Working Men’s Association, August 9
North American Federal Council to the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association in London, August 9
Fr. J. Bertrand to Frederick Engels, August 10
L. Dagobert to Hermann Jung, August 10
From a Letter of Ludwig Kugelmann to Karl Marx, August 11
Paul Lafargue to Karl Marx, August 12
Th. Remy to Hermann Jung, August 12
Edward Jones to Frederick Engels, August 13
Nikolai Utin to Eleanor Marx, August 14-19
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Nikolai Danielson, August 15
From a Letter of Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, August 15
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels, August 16
Bruno Liebers to Karl Marx, August 18
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels, August 18
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to E. Glaser de Willebrord, August 19
Benjamin Le Moussu to the Secretary of the Editorial Board of the newspaper Corsaire, August 19
From a Letter of Louis Pio to Frederick Engels, August 19 457 Joseph Dietzgen to Karl Marx, August 19
Carl Kleist to the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association, August 19
Nikolai Lyubavin to Karl Marx, August 8 (20)
G. Orpin to an Unknown, August 20
Nikolai Danielson to Karl Marx, August 9 (21)
Rudolf Schramm to Karl Marx, August 21
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, August 21
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels, August 21
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels, August 21
C6sar de Paepe to Hermann Jung, August 22
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Hermann Jung, August 22
Nikolai Utin to Eleanor Marx, August 22
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Karl Marx, August 23
Jose C. Nobre-Fran to Frederick Engels (August 23]
Paul Lafargue to Frederick Engels, [after August 23]
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Wilhelm Liebknecht, August 24
The Correspondence Commission of the Italian Federation to the Jura Federal Committee, August 24
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels, August 24
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels, August 25
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels [August 25]
Karl Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, August 26
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels, August 26
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels [August 26]
Nikolai Utin to Theodor Duval [August 27]
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels [August 27]
Maltman Barry to Karl Marx, August 27
0. V. Suetendael to Karl Marx, August 28
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels [August 28]
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels [August 29]
Friedrich Lessner to Frederick Engels, August 29
Friedrich Adolf Sorge, Victor Schily and Henri Bachruch to Johann Philipp Becker, August 29
Lewis Wingfield to Karl Marx, August 29
Edouard Vaillant to Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, August 30
Hermann Jung to Karl Marx, August 30
Henri Perret to Johann Philipp Becker, August 30
Frederic Cournet to the Belgian Federal Council, August 30
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels [August 30]
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, August 31
Nikolai Utin to Karl Marx [end of August].
Arthur Barnekow to Frederick Engels [end of August-beginning of September]
Frederick Engels to Hermann Jung [beginning of September]
Hugo Speyer to the Brunswick Organisation, September 1
Eleanor Marx to Karl Marx [September 7]
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels (September 7
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 1
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 2
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels, September 2
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 3
Jules Johannard to Hermann Jung, September 4
Jules Johannard to Hermann Jung September 4]
E. Glaser de Willebrord to Frederick Engels [September 5]
Jules Johannard, Eugene Dupont, Paul Vichard and Auguste Ser- raillier to Hermann Jung, September 5
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 5
Ivan Golovin to Karl Marx [about September 5-71
Eugene Dupont to Karl Marx [September 7]
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 7
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 7
Carl Farkas to Karl Marx, September 7
Jules Johannard to Hermann Jung, September 8 [7]
Natalie Liebknecht to Wilhelm Liebknecht [after September 8]
Adolf Hepner to Wilhelm Liebknecht [after September 8]
Edward Jones to Frederick Engels, September 10
Karl Marx to the Editor of the Corsaire newspaper, September 12
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Frederick Engels, September 13
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, September 15
Sergei Podolinsky to Pyotr Lavrov, September 16
J. Patrie MacDonnell to Frederick Engels [September 16]
Karl Marx to the Editor of the Daily News newspaper, September 17
Rudolph Seiffert to Frederick Engels, September 17
Thomas S. Townend to Karl Marx, September 18
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels, September 19
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, September 21
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, September 21
Adolf Wegmann to Frederick Engels, September 22
Adolf Hepner to Karl Marx, September 26
Henry Van den Abeele to Karl Marx, September 26
Henry Van den Abeele to Karl Marx, September 27
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, October 1
R. McNeill to Karl Marx, October 1
P. van der Willigen to Karl Marx, October 2
Charles Rochat to Karl Marx, October 3
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, October 5
Charles Dobson Collet to Karl Marx, October 5
Jose’Mesa to Frederick Engels, October 5
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, October 8
Gabriel Ranvier to Karl Marx, October 8
Sigismund Borkheim to Frederick Engels, October 9
Peter Imandt to Karl Marx, October 9
Edouard Vaillant to Karl Marx, October 10
Raimond Wilmart to Frederick Engels [October 771
Jose Mesa to Frederick Engels [October 77]
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, October 12
Friedrich Lessner to Frederick Engels, [October 12]
Wilhelm Fink to Frederick Engels, October 14
J. Dumas to Johann Philipp Becker, October 15
W. E. Harcourt to Frederick Engels, October 15
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels, October 17
Karl Marx to the Editorial Office of the Volksstaat, October 20
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels, October 21
From a Letter of Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Frederick Engels, October 25
Cesar de Paepe to Karl Marx, October 26
Frederick Engels to Theodor Cuno, October 29
Frederique Potel to Paul Vichart [October-November]
From a Letter of Nikolai Utin to Karl Marx, November 1
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, November 2
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, November 16
Gustav Ludwig to Karl Marx, November 16
Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Auguste Serraillier, Eugene Dupont, and Leo Frankel, Members of the Commission Appointed by the General Congress at The Hague for Revising the Congress Minutes and for Transmitting Books and Papers to the New General Council, November 24
From a Letter of Bruno Liebers to Adolf Hepner [November 25]
Wilhelm Liebknecht to Frederick Engels in London with Accompanying Letter by Natalie Liebknecht, November 26
From a Letter of, Friedrich Adolf Sorge to Karl Marx, November 26
Adolf Hepner to Frederick Engels [beginning of December]
A. Oldrini to Karl Marx, December 2
Hermann Greulich to Johann Philipp Becker, December 5
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Nikolai Danielson, December 12
From a Letter of Nikolai Danielson to Karl Marx, December 15 (27)

1873

Theodor Cuno to Karl Marx, January 8
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Nikolai Danielson, January 18
From a Letter of Nikolai Danielson to Karl Marx, January 16(28)
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to August Bebel, June 20
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, July 26
From a Letter of Karl Marx to Nikolai Danielson, August 12
From a Letter of Frederick Engels to Friedrich Adolf Sorge, November 25

Appendices

Reminiscences of Delegate to the Hague Congress Theodor Friedrich Cuno

From a Letter to R. F. Barton in Leningrad
To the Toiling Millions of Russia 613
From the Manuscript: An Agitator’s Reminiscences

Report on the Meeting of the International in Amsterdam Published in the Algemeen Handelsblad

Notes and Indexes

Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Geographical Names and Addresses